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We finally have our first look at Emily Bader as Poppy Wright in “People We Meet on Vacation”. Harper’s Bazaar unveiled the first promotional stills of the book adaptation as well an interview with Emily, Tom Blyth, writer Emily Henry and director Brett Haley . Check them out:

Emily Bader just might have been destined to portray Poppy Wright.

The 28-year-old actress, who has previously starred in the series My Lady Jane, was spending time with her childhood best friend last year when she was first introduced to the literary world of Emily Henry. Describing the author as popular would be a severe understatement. You can’t walk into a bookstore, cruise through the airport, or scroll through BookTok without coming into contact with her witty romance novels. Their realistic—but also comical—view of modern-day love and dating has built a massive legion of loyal readers—but Bader hadn’t yet joined the club at the time.

“I was about to go on summer vacation and my best friend was grilling me on Emily Henry’s stuff and People We Meet on Vacation and basically yelling at me to get my head out from under the rock,” Bader tells Harper’s Bazaar from her home in Los Angeles. “Cut to a few days later, I’m in Europe and I get this email saying that I have this meeting for this project—titled People We Meet on Vacation—and I’m like, there’s no way this is the same thing we just talked about. So I immediately call her, which I probably wasn’t supposed to do, and I’m like, ‘Is this the thing that you were talking about?’”

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